The Great Shadow

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"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history... necessary and timely...e ngaging and entertaining. Highly recommended." ― Library Journal , starred "[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful if unsettling." ― Kirkus Anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be triumphing over common sense today. How did we get here? The Great Shadow brings a huge missing piece to this puzzle—the experience of actually being ill. What did it feel like to be a woman or man struggling with illness in ancient times, in the Middle Ages, in the seventeenth century, or in 1920? And how did that shape our thoughts and convictions? The Great Shadow uses extensive historical research and first-person accounts to tell a vivid story about sickness and our responses to it, from very ancient times until the last decade